The singing and dancing in the tent stopped.

Just about to take off the skin, Gou Xiong, who was about to take off the skin and compare it with Yang Man, paused involuntarily with his hand, and the excitement stimulated by the half-drunk wine suddenly disappeared, his heart jumped, and he pushed away the Kabuki on the side, and a pair of copper bell eyes stared at the military official who entered the account.

Yang Man asked, "Is it a will for me, or a will for General Xiaocai?" ”

The officer replied, "It is a decree for the general." ”

Yang Man has a military position, and this military official is a soldier, so he is called a general.

When Gou Xiong heard this, his mood relaxed slightly, and he thought: "This military official's words are not clear, and only one sentence of the holy decree has arrived, which scares Lao Tzu!" Lao Tzu said, the king's reply to me can't have arrived so early! He took a big sip of his glass, and was shocked.

But although Pu Mao is known as the "benevolent master", he can rebel and kill his younger brother Pu Changsheng to usurp the throne, how can he be a real "benevolent" person? Not to mention, after he usurped the throne and ascended the throne, in order to realize his ambitions, he really killed a lot of Pu Changsheng's former ministers, as well as the Di and Qiang nobles who opposed Meng Lang.

Moreover, Gou Xiong's sister Queen Gou, although Pu Mao treats her with respect, but when Queen Gou is weak, at a critical time, Gou Xiong probably can't refer to the two, and compared to Queen Gou, Concubine Zhang from the Tang family, and Luan Tong Qingque, who has been favored in the past two years, is really Pu Mao's favorite, so, now that Shuo Fang is defeated, will Pu Mao be blamed on Gou Xiong? If the crime is committed, if Meng Lang enters the "slander", will it be a light punishment or a heavy punishment? To be honest, Gou Xiong has no bottom on this.

And because of this? Gou Xiong and Yang Man? At this moment, despite a strong one? A subservience? The two actually share the same disease. First of all, fame, fortune, and life are in Pu Mao's hands; Secondly? Both of them were also afraid of Meng Lang, the only one who could influence Pu Mao's decision. Therefore, just like Yang Manwang can get the great merit of laying down Jinyang? To save his life? Gou Xiong wanted to conquer Jinyang before, but it was just to fight for merit, and now it is as follows, which also has the hope that he can use this to redeem his merits.

All sorts of things? Not enough for outsiders to be careful about all kinds of Gou Xiong? It also made him mistakenly think that it was Pu Mao's decree given to him when he suddenly heard the holy decree just now, and he really became nervous all of a sudden.

Yang Man asked, "Where are the angels?" ”

The officer replied, "It's almost outside the camp." ”

Yang Man got up and invited Gou Xiong to join him.

Two people out of the tent to the camp gate? I saw a group of people coming from the east.

Wait until you get closer, and one of the riders comes out? About thirty years old and tall and strong? Braided hair behind the head and wearing a colourful hakama? It was the messenger of Pu Mao who came to deliver the message. Do both recognize? This person's surname is Qiu? It is the second son of Situ Qiuwei, named Qiu Chang.

Qiu Wei is a Di person, his reputation in Pu Qin is very high, and he is the first important minister in the Pu Qin Dynasty, in terms of his status in Pu Mao's mind, Qiu Wei can be said to be second only to Meng Lang, but if it is about the power in the court, Qiu Wei is far higher than Meng Lang. After all, Meng Lang is a Tang person, although Pu Mao is important and loves him, but the team of the Pu Qin court is mainly Di people and Qiang people.

The sons of hatred are now all officials and generals in the court.

His eldest son Qiu Tai, is a member of Pu Qin's generals, last year's battle of Qinzhou, Qiu Tai and Ran Seng Nu and others attacked Wudu County, Zhang Daochong and Li Liang in Dingxi fought with him many times, Li Liang's four Qin battalions, cut his battalion, three failures, and finally succeeded once. Qiu Tai is a person who usually talks less, thinks more, and looks at those who don't say anything, but once he breaks out, he is cruel and fierce.

Qiu Chang, as Qiu Tai's brother-in-law, has a family that is similar to Qiu Tai in personality, but there are also many differences. Unlike Qiu Tai, who always has a sullen face, Qiu Chang behaves calmly and treats people thoughtfully, and Xianyang Feng commented on him as "elegant", which is quite his father's hatred.

The three of them met.

Not to mention Qiu Chang's family momentum, only he was Pu Mao's messenger and came on behalf of Pu Mao, Gou Xiong and Yang Man were very respectful, and respectfully and enthusiastically welcomed him into the camp Yang Man's tent.

The banquet has been withdrawn, and the singers and dancers have returned to the military prostitute camp, but the smell of wine and fat powder in the tent has not yet dissipated. Qiu Chang snorted and said with a smile: "It's not the right time for Xia Guan to arrive, and it disturbed the two of you's drinking. ”

Gou Xiong didn't know about the removal of the banquet, so he asked Yang Man and said, "Why did the banquet be removed?" When the monk comes from afar, he will be hungry and thirsty, so he just eats some food and drinks to cushion his stomach. Lao Yang, you don't know anything. ”

Seng Mi is Qiu Chang's small character, Qiu is afraid of believing in Buddhism, and Qiu Tai's small character is Vimo. Sangmi and Vima are all from Buddhist scriptures.

Yang Manying said: "Yes, yes." He explained, "The leftovers are not enough to wash away the dust of the enemy, and I have ordered the cook not to cook new dishes, and he will serve them in a moment." Please take a seat and say, "Please wait a moment. ”

Qiu Chang said: "I ate on the way. I'm not in a hurry to eat the food and drinks, I'll make a decree first. ”

Yang Man and Gou Xiong have no reason to refuse.

At that moment, the incense case was placed in the tent, and Gou Xiong, Yang Man, Ji He and others were replaced by courtiers, bowed to the ground, and listened to Qiu Chang's reading in front of everyone.

Pu Maoshen was ashamed of the vulgarity of his clansmen, and since he succeeded to the throne, he not only set up a large school, summoned the children of the Di and Qiang nobles to enroll, and studied the classics of the Tang Dynasty, but also used the Tang language for his official decrees, and made sure that the rhetoric was elegant and the scriptures were quoted.

This holy decree is no exception, it was drafted by the officials of the Tang people, the words are Tang Chinese, the words are gorgeous, and the words are four and six.

Qiu Chang read it for a while before finishing it. Yang Man understood, Gou Xiong didn't understand too much, only from a few understandable and relatively simple words, he roughly heard that Pu Mao's holy decree seemed to be ordering Yang Man to lead his troops to attack Shangdang County.

Gou Xiong lay on the ground, twisted his face back, and went to look at Ji He.

Ji He knew that he didn't understand, and said in a low voice: "The king's holy decree said that he had received an invitation from Yang Taishou to attack Jinyang, but the king did not agree with Yang Taishou to fight Jinyang now, so Yang Taishou divided his troops into two ways, and the division watched Jinyang City, and the main force went south to attack Shangdang. ”

Gou Xiong turned his face, asked Qiu Chang, and said: "The Xianbeier who can fight under the state is the only one left, Han Motu is left, and if Jinyang is a moment, the Shangdang and other counties will surrender without attacking." Why didn't the king fight Jinyang, but let Lao Yang attack Shangdang County? ”

Qiu Chang walked away from everyone, turned to the side, bent down and handed the holy decree to Yang Man from the side, he looked at himself, and said with a smile: "I have finished reading the king's will!" General, please take a look. Generals, horsemen, please get up. ”

They got up and sat down.

Yang Man carefully read Pu Mao's holy decree again, and it was exactly the same as what Qiu Chang had read.

Qiu Chang waited for him to finish reading, then answered Gou Xiong's question, and said: "More than ten days ago, the king captured the whole county of Xingyang, and then defeated Murong Wutai, and captured more than 10,000 people. ”

Just the day before deciding to come to Jinyang to grab merit, Pu Mao captured the whole county of Xingyang, and the Wei soldiers of Ji County and Puyang County in the north of Xingyang abandoned the county and retreated to Liyang County.

——Liyang County borders Puyang County to the south and Wei County to the north, and Wei County is the county where Yecheng is located. Liyang County was the last line of defense south of Yecheng, and the reason why the Wei soldiers retreated here was obviously to prepare for a final decisive battle with Pu Mao here.

Gou Xiong replied, "Yes." ”

Qiu Chang said with emotion: "Defeat Liyang, Yecheng is my Daqin's bag!" Henan, Merge, and Central Prefectures will all fall into the hands of my Great Qin! Since the founding of the Great Qin Dynasty, the military might of my Great Qin has never been as prosperous as it is today! The king is really the once-in-a-lifetime master of Great Qin! Our generation can be driven by the king to participate in the great cause of unifying the northern land, and it is a blessing for three lives! ”

Gou Xiong was anxious to find out why Pu Mao didn't let him beat Jinyang, but he asked Yang Man to fight the party,—— Yang Man was not allowed to beat Jinyang, in other words, he would definitely not be allowed to beat Jinyang, how could he have the heart to listen to Qiu Chang pat Pu Mao's sycophants at this time? Perfunctory said: "Yes, yes, exactly." He asked, "Monk Mi, you haven't told me yet, why did the king order Lao Yang to join the party and not Jinyang?" ”

"Xiao Cai, after He Hun Xie returned to Xuzhou, my Great Qin Wang Division, although he was missing He Hun Evil, the opponent who fought for Yecheng, but Murong Zhan led his troops to cross the river and enter Guixiang County in the north, but Wei Yu strengthened the guard of Yecheng because of this. The situation around Fang Jinye City is that the south is the Murong Wutai Department, the east is the Murong Zhan Department, and the middle of the city is the Murong Quan Department. Although Yecheng is just around the corner, if you want to lay it, the resistance is still not small. ”

"Without He Hunxie, the opponent who competed for Yecheng", he said about an incident that happened not long ago.

After the quarrel between the DPRK and the central government and the preparation of the front line, Jiangzuo's Eastern Tang Dynasty finally sent troops to the Northern Expedition.

Ordered to serve as the commander of the Northern Expedition of Yangzhou Assassin Shi Yin Dang, although his military ability was despised by Huan Meng, but he was able to be appointed by Jiangzuo Chaotang as the Yangzhou Assassin History, and took on the heavy responsibility of Yangzhou in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River to counter Jingzhou in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, that is, Huanmeng, his people are not mediocre people, or some wisdom and insight, so he accepted the advice of his mastermind Xun Mu, and before sending troops to the north, he sent an envoy to Pu Mao's camp, and put forward a proposal to join forces with Pu Qin to destroy the Xianbei Wei State and He Hun Evil and divide the land equally.

Although he sent Pu Badger Sun to attack Pengcheng, He Hun still did not move on the east bank of the Yellow River, eyeing Yecheng. He pushed the boat down the river and agreed.

- Of course, it is one thing to agree, and according to Meng Lang's words, it is another thing to carry out the agreement or not. If Tang Bing shows excellent combat effectiveness, then implement it according to the agreement, and give him where Yin Dang fights for the time being; If the Tang soldiers do not make good progress, then the territory laid by Pu Qin will not be handed over to each other in vain.

In any case, under the agreement of the two sides, Yin Dang sent troops north to cross the Huaishui ten days earlier, and launched an attack on Pengcheng, Xiapi and other Xuzhou counties bordering Yangzhou.

The west side of Xuzhou has been attacked by the Pu Badger Sun Division, and now the Tang soldiers have come to the south, and the enemy is attacked on both sides, and the He Hun leopard Rao who defends Pengcheng and Xuzhou is brave, and it is difficult to support it all of a sudden.

So, in desperation, He Hun had no choice but to retreat south from Jibei County on the east bank of the Yellow River and retreat to Xuzhou to help He Hun Leopard.

But he said, why did the Tang family allow Yin Dang to form an alliance with Pu Mao, but he refused to agree to He Hun's several requests for an alliance before?

The reason is simple.

Before the Tang dynasty moved south, when the Xiongnu Zhao clan rebelled, the Xiongnu Zhao clan was the most ferocious minions of the Xiongnu Zhao clan, killing many Tang clans and famous ministers, and some northern scholars were even wiped out by them, and the Tang State can be described as a sea of blood feud; On the other hand, the Rong people, although they also attached to the Xiongnu Zhao clan, but they did not take the initiative to rebel, and deep down, the older generation of Rong people did not believe that the Hu people could be the son of heaven in the Central Plains, such as the grandfather of the Yao State, before his death, because he saw that the Hu people in the north were constantly killing each other, he explained to his descendants, "Since ancient times, there are no Hu people who are the sons of heaven in China, and if the north cannot be stayed, they can cross south to the Tang Dynasty", which is also the main reason why the Tang State previously accepted Yao Guo and other Qiang people to take refuge,——, therefore, the monarchs and ministers of the Tang State can make an alliance with Pu Qin, but they are never willing to make an alliance with He Hun evil.

When he heard that Yin Dang and Pu Mao had made an alliance, He Hun's evil mood could be imagined, and he had to scold and kill a few people to vent his anger, but this was helpless, and he could only withdraw from the game with Pu Mao to fight for Yecheng, and go back to keep the nest first.

Needless to say.

It is only said that soon after He Hun Xie withdrew back to Xuzhou, Murong Zhan also left the east side of the Yellow River, crossed the river with his troops, and entered Guixiang County in the north.

Guixiang County is a little north to the east of Wei County.

From Qin Jun's point of view, what he saw was only Murong Zhan's action of leading his troops north to Guixiang County, as for why he did this? Although the scouts of the Qin army could not be detected, Pu Mao and Meng Lang could guess it.

It can only be for one reason.

That is, after hearing that the Tang soldiers had joined the ranks of attacking Wei, Murong Zhan must have realized that the danger of the death of Wei was imminent, and at this juncture, the most important thing was to keep Yecheng, as long as Yecheng was still in the hands of the Murong clan, the land of Hebei could still be occupied by the Murong clan, and as long as Hebei was not lost, the Murong clan would still have a chance to make a comeback. Therefore, based on this, he made the decision and action of this "strong man with broken wrist", abandoning Yanzhou, crossing the north into Guixiang County, and defending Yecheng with all his might.

Murong Zhan's decision had a certain impact on the Yecheng battlefield.

He Hun's exit originally relieved Pu Mao's pressure, but Murong Zhan's arrival at Guixiang County increased Pu Mao's resistance to attack Yecheng. That is to say, Pu Qin drove away He Hun Evil as a competitor, but there were more Murong Zhan's troops as his enemy to attack Yecheng, but, relatively speaking, Murong Zhan's troops were not as good as He Hun Evil Forces, and the overall situation on the Yecheng battlefield was better than before.

Gou Xiong said: "The resistance is not small. ”

Qiu Chang said: "Because of this, the king used the strategy of Meng Gong to set a three-sided battle and a joint attack on Ye County. ”

Gou Xiong listened to Qiu Chang's detailed explanation of Pu Mao's "three-sided battle and joint attack on Ye County", which solved his doubts about Pu Mao's intention to make Yang Man not fight Jinyang and fight the party county.

But it turned out that in response to this new battlefield situation, Pu Mao adopted Meng Lang's new strategy to deal with changes.

This new strategy is: first, Pu Mao led the main force of Pu Qin to attack Liyang County head-on; Secondly, Meng Lang led other troops to Guixiang County, northeast of Yecheng, to contain Murong Zhan's department; In the end, Yang Man led his elite to attack Shangdang County, which was in the west of Wei County to threaten the western flank of Wei County, forcing Murong Quan and Murong Wutai to divide their troops to help, so as to help the frontal battlefield commanded by Pu Mao.

Because of this strategy, after Yang Manzuo asked him to attack Jinyang, Pu Mao ordered him not to fight Jinyang, but to fight the party's holy decree.

Gou Xiong lowered his head, smacked his lips and thought: "Jin Yang won't let me fight, the king ordered Yang Man to fight the party, what should I do?" He raised his eyes to Qiu Chang and asked, "Monk Mi, you came from the king's side, I played the king's table the day before yesterday, can the king see it?" ”

Qiu Chang smiled and said: "If the king didn't see the top table of Xiao Cavalry, wouldn't the lower officials be surprised when they saw Xiao Riding in General Yang's camp?" ”

The implication is that if it weren't for the fact that you had been defeated by Shuofang, it would have been strange to see you in Yang Man's camp today.

Gou Xiong scratched his cheeks and asked tentatively, "Did the king say anything after reading my watch?" ”